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Finding herself in Paris for the fall—and wearing sweatpants and a holey T-shirt to the local bakery, as opposed to the French uniform of ankle boots and a mini-dress—Marisa Meltzer decided it was the ideal time to try following the advice of Mireille Guiliano, author of the French Women series on diet, style, and business. The 10-day result? Some genuine improvements, but “ultimately I feel more at home in jeans,” she writes for DoubleX.

The leek soup detox prompted Meltzer to send “several emails to friends predicting my death”; the directive to drink lots of champagne gave her a “hangover such that I’m unable to leave my couch”; her attempt at wearing a scarf leaves her looking “more peri-menopausal than jaunty”—but “even so, after 10 days, I find that I’m eating slower, sleeping better, and looking more presentable during my morning pastry runs.”

I live in Paris and the French are great at one thing "Brainwashing" They have the best food, the best dressed, sexy men, thin women. Its all BS.

schmidtkoff

Oct 15, 2009 8:38 AM CDT

and more fat people in america who not only smoke but also eat pastries. and pommes frites, and even mikey D. the champagne? doesn't go with any of the above. ya might get a hangover from too much but ya won't get fat., not. if you smoke that might work for a time, but in the long run it won't suppress the fat cells any more than imbibing the champange. gives a great hangover though, the food than the drink.

pwnage

Oct 15, 2009 5:55 AM CDT

Indeed I can attest to that - on assignment in Paris a few years ago, people in the office were smoking over their computers, and, if you can believe it, I'd walk past butts tossed in abandoned styrofoam cups half full of water.